Monthly Archives: January 2013

In our third unit in our Humanities course, we learned about doubt. In this SlideRocket presentation I came up with my own guiding question. I will take you through my process of coming up with my question as well as what I will be expecting by asking this question. Here you can watch my slideshow. Read More…

For our first project as action in our second trimester humanities class, we were challenged to create an amendment to our own school’s Code of Conduct. We spent the first unit exploring the Arab Spring and the American constitution, even comparing and contrasting the US constitution to Egypt’s old and new constitution. It was difficult Read More…

In the first unit of our Who Am I course we were told to listen to three This I Believe essays and write our own essay based on what we strongly believe. It took me a while to think of something to write about because there is a lot I believe in, but I decided Read More…

In my humanities course, the assignment was to make a podcast about something that I believe in. I wrote about how I believe that loss pervades through the heart and how the feeling never leaves you. In my podcast, I will give a first hand account of how losing a loved one has really impacted Read More…

    In my Spanish class, we learned about what schools were like in the past. We then visited a school to compare how schools are now. For our action project we had to write a paper, in Spanish, to tell what schools were like in the past, how they are now, and what we Read More…

For my Spanish class (Escuela) we made a presentation on how schools have changed in the past.  The most difficult part was trying to translate everything into Spanish.  After finishing this project I’ve learned a lot about how schools used to be, and also have started to research what schools will be like in the Read More…

For my Spanish course, (Escuela) we were told to create a page long essay in Spanish, about schools in the past, present, and future. We did each phase separately, and simply the three. We did many “external investigations” in the process. This includes going to St. Ignatious high school. The trip was entertaining and enlightening Read More…

For our first action project we created a written and visual presentation about schools back then, now and in the future. I think the most interesting thing for me was trying to invision our schools in the near future. Without a doubt throughout this entire project the most challenging things was translating my entire presentation Read More…

In my Spanish escuela course, I created a timeline presentation on what schools were like in the past, present, and the future. The process of creating this powerpoint was hard because I had to make sure that my Spanish was translated correctly from English. The thing I am most proud of in this presentation are Read More…

In our Spanish class we are studying schools past, present, and future. For our project we had to practice tenses and new verbs through writing a paper about what we learned. We went on field trips to St. Ignatious and the Chicago History Museum to learn more about the history of schools and how it Read More…